September i, 1904.] 



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in New York early in the past month. The arrangement which 

 has thus terminated had reference to the maintenance of prices, 

 and was guaranteed by the parties to it giving bonds, while the 

 secretary of the pool had authority to examine the books of 

 the various factories. As an aid to carrying out this agreement, 

 there was an allotment of production among the factories ; or, 

 rather, those firms turning out more than their allotment con- 

 tributed to a fund which was divided among firms not receiv- 

 ing their share of orders. 



It is understood that the manufacturers" agreement in respect 

 to " Clincher " pneumatic, which has existed for a year past, 

 remains in force. 



OUTING OF PASSAIC FACTORY EMPLOYES. 

 The outing committee of the Passaic factory of the New 

 York Belting and Packing Co., Limited, have arranged for the 

 holding of the seventh annual clambake, under the auspices of 

 the foreman and clerks and executive staff of the factory, at 

 Donnelly's Grove, College Point, Long Island, on September 3. 

 A chowder breakfast is to be served at 10 A. M. and there will 

 be games until 2 P. M., at which hour a Rhode Island bake will 

 be served. This outing is unique in the Eastern rubber trade, 

 and serves admirably to illustrate the loyalty and community 

 of interest existing between the employes and officials of the 

 company. The complimentary invitations issued this year are 

 of rubber, molded in the shape of a clamshell with the invita- 

 tion expressed in raised letters. 



CHEMICALS FOR THE RUBBER TRADE. 

 The Acker Process Co. (Niagara Falls, N. Y.), chemical 

 manufacturers on a large scale, have entered the field of sup- 

 plying the rubber trade with their products in chloride of sul- 

 phur and carbon tetrachloride, which they can furnish prompt- 

 ly in good size quantities; also caustic soda, bleaching powder, 

 etc. It is understood that they have an entirely new process 

 for the manufacture of sulphur chloride. Their advertisement 

 appears on another page. 



TRADE NEWS NOTES. 



The factories of the United States Rubber Co. at Nauga- 

 tuck, Connecticut, were to resume work on Monday, August 

 29, after a shutdown of three weeks. The intention at first 

 was to close for only two weeks, but the repairs undertaken 

 during the vacation required more time than was expected. 

 The Naugatuck rubber factories have not been closed before in 

 summer for several years, and many of the employes have had 

 an unusual experience in going away from home for a vacation 

 during the heated term. 



= The factory of the Joseph Banigan Rubber Co. (Olneyville, 

 Rhode Island), resumed work on August 1, after a shutdown 

 of four weeks, resulting from the blowing out of a cylinder 

 head, which completely wrecked the engine. The company 

 are reported to have in hand an important order for govern- 

 ment work. 



=The factories of the Woonsocket Rubber Co. were shut 

 down for ten days recently, starting up during the third week 

 in August. 



=The shoe department at the factory of the National India 

 Rubber Co. (Bristol, Rhode Island) was closed on August 13 

 for two weeks. The other departments continued in operation. 



= The International Automobile and Vehicle Tire Co. (Mill- 

 town, New Jersey) have acquired all the rights to the Stodder 

 puncture proof tire, which they have been manufacturing for 

 some time past. 



=The Beacon Falls Rubber Shoe Co.'s Boston branch is 

 now fully installed in the new premises, No. 228 Congress 

 street. 



= The store of the Goodyear Rubber Co. was among the bus- 

 iness houses seriously damaged by an unprecedented storm 

 which swept over St. Paul, Minnesota, on August 21, causing 

 the known loss of twelve lives in the state and a loss of prop- 

 erty estimated at millions of dollars. 



= The rubber reclaiming plant of the New Jersey Rubber Co. 

 (Lambertville, New Jersey) was closed for repairs for a week 

 during the middle of August. Work was resumed as promptly 

 as possible, as the company have a number of orders in hand. 



= The board of fire commissioners of St. Paul, Minnesota, 

 on August 17, opened bids for 1000 feet of fire hose, awarding 

 the contract to the St. Paul Rubber Co., jobbers, of that city, 

 at $1.10 per foot. 



= The premises known as the "Goodyear Rubber Store," at 

 No. 866 Chapel street, New Haven, Connecticut, long occupied 

 as a retail rubber store by Frank C. Tuttle, whose bankruptcy 

 was reported in The India Rubber World for July 1, are now 

 occupied by The Pardee- Ellenberger Co., with a retail stock of 

 rubber goods, sporting goods, phonographs and records. The 

 firm will continue their wholesale business at their old loca- 

 tion, No. 155 Orange street. 



= At a meeting on August 5, of creditors of Frank C. Tuttle, 

 a rubber goods dealer in New Haven. Connecticut, who failed 

 in June, a first dividend of 10 per cent, of the claims was de- 

 clared. 



= A recent fire in the factory of the Empire Rubber Manufac- 

 turing Co. (Trenton, New Jersey), caused by frictional electricity 

 from a belt, and quickly extinguished by sprinklers, causing a 

 total loss of $918, led to the publication by the insurance press 

 of the amount of insurance carried by the company— $267,750. 



=Schedules of bankruptcy of Benedict Reis, who did busi- 

 ness as the Neptune Rubber Co., manufacturing mackintoshes 

 and rainproof coats at No. 23 Lispenard street, New York, 

 show liabilities of $41,327 and nominal assets of $4100, of which 

 $3900 is represented by 39 shares of the Mercury Rubber Co., 

 which was incorporated in 1903 to operate a factory at Eliza- 

 beth, New Jersey, but never made a start. Benedict Reis, after 

 his failure, left the country, but is now in New York selling 

 silks for a foreign house. 



= Samuel W. Luce has resigned as auditor of The Republic 

 Rubber Co. (Youngstown, Ohio) and been succeeded by C. F 

 Garrison. 



= C. J. Bailey & Co. (Boston) on August 10 received a tele- 

 gram from Mr. H. Fred Lesh, who recently went from Boston 

 to St. Louis in an automobile contest, reading as follows: 

 " From Boston here with five passengers, on the Bailey 'Won't 

 Slip' tires, without a single tire trouble. No other tires made 

 such a record on the run."=^A. E. Morrison, on " Peerless" 

 automobile equipped with " Won't Slip" tires, won the auto- 

 mobile race at Newport, Rhode Island, on J.:ly 30, over all 

 foreign and American cars in this class. 



= The W. C. Coleman Co. (Setauket, New York) desire us 

 to state that it is owned by the same parties who owned it 

 when it was located in New York city. It has in no way con- 

 nected itself with any other person or firm, either in Setauket 

 or elsewhere, since its establishment. 



= Corydon M. Amerman, formerly with William Wright & 

 Co., importers of crude rubber, has opened an office as broker 

 in rubber at No. 108 Water street, New York. 



= Leonard Klein, aged 45, an employe of the Alkali Rubber 

 Co. (Akron, Ohio), had both hands so badly crushed in a mill 

 at the company's factory that amputation was necessary. He 

 afterwards died at the hospital, as is supposed from worry over 

 his unfortunate condition. He left a widow and thirteen 

 children. 



